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Crushing of dissent.

Sorry.

Subversive sweets.

“Un-American Girl Doll.”

Removing the reason from the season.

The persecution of Joey Vento.

Fill in the blank.

Enter stage left.

You can’t say what?

S.O.S.

And then there were none.

“Don’t mess with tradition.”

Lit up. Update: Ayaan Hirsi Ali speaks.

“Can I just check those diplomas because I just want to make sure that they are not from some med school in the Philippines.”

Rorschach test.

“The fear of being discriminatory led them to fail to discriminate between the appropriate and the abusive.”

Baltimore-ese: “A-rabs and Arabs.”

An important media advisory from the AAJA: Only they can use ethnic descriptors. Everyone else: Back off!
Too.
Ridiculous.
Reader Doug in Colorado writes:
Unbelievable. If there were any consistency, they would be lauding the fact that he made great strides in bringing greater diversity to the ranks of mass murderers, a segment in which the Asian-American community [...]

In March, I linked to the story of DePaul University professor Thomas Klocek, who was suspended for allegedly offending Muslim students. John Ruberry at Marathon Pundit has been following the case and has an exclusive on a slander suit just filed by Klocek against the school.
More at The American Thinker. Background here.
AP brief here.

Remember this embattled cross?

When last I blogged about the beloved war memorial on a mountaintop in the San Diego area, a local atheist seemed on the verge of winning a protacted legal battle to tear the cross down.
Now, it’s headed for a citywide vote.
After an emotional six-hour hearing in which veterans pleaded with the City [...]

Harvard U.’s Larry Summers pays penance for his politically incorrect remarks about women and science:
Harvard University President Lawrence Summers, under fire for comments on women in the sciences, said the school would spend $50 million over 10 years to promote diversity on its faculty and reform the way women in science and engineering are treated.
The [...]

Must-read of the day, on how political correctness has corrupted the Los Angeles Police Department is in The American Enterprise online. An excerpt:
Los Angeles County averages 1,000 murders every year, two thirds of them carried out by gangs. Most of the victims never make the papers (though every charge of “racial profiling” by an ACLU [...]

Lots of buzz in New England and from parentbloggers about this book:

The book, “Who’s in a Family?,” teaches preschoolers about “multicultural contemporary family units” including nuclear, intergenerational, mixed-race, and lesbian and gay arrangements. David Parker, father of a 5-year-old boy in Concord, Mass., was arrested Wednesday at his son’s kindergarten over a disagreement about the [...]

The Washington Times’s Valerie Richardson has a story out today that wins my p.c.- hell-in-a-handbasket award:
DENVER — The students in Vincent Pulciani’s seventh-grade class were reciting the Pledge of Allegiance this week when they heard the voice over the intercom say something they’d never heard before, at least not during the Pledge.
Instead of “one nation, [...]

Just to lighten things up a little…
Kevin at Wizbang beat me to it, but if you haven’t seen this ridiculous story about Snohomish , Wa., public school officials banning t-shirts with the word “Snohos” because it’s “derogatory,” read it now.
Will Ho-Hos be next on the hit list?
How about Boho?
Or SoHo?
And will the P.C. cops now [...]

The principal of a high school in Salem, Ore., refuses to allow one of her students, Shea Riecke, to post a picture of her brother, a Marine, on a classroom bulletin board. Here is the photo. (Shea’s brother, Cpl Bill Riecke, is on the right.)

Photo credit: Marine Corps Moms
Normally this sort of thing would pass [...]

An aggrieved atheist has won his longtime battle against a 43-foot cross that stood on a mountaintop in the San Diego area. AP reports:
A 43-foot cross is to be removed from public land after a 15-year legal battle came to an end this week when the City Council rejected a proposal to transfer the land [...]

With the War on Christmas behind us, it’s time for the War on Easter to begin.

So, I’m sure you’ve all seen this P.C. run amok story getting lots of blog buzz today. Apparently, the grievance-mongers have nothing better to do than attack IKEA for sexist instructions that discriminate against Muslim women because they were illustrated only with male cartoon figures.
Like John Stossel sez: Gimme a break!
The upside of this tempest [...]

…trying to discipline disrespectful students.
See the photos and video.
So, what are administrators at the Brick Township, N.J., public school where the incident occurred doing to solve the “problem?”
They are considering banning cell phones, because it was a student’s phone cam that videotaped the teacher’s outburst, which was then spread on Internet sites.
Educrats.